Power of Artemis

Witches

The wake up to wolves howling, I walk towards the building with my clothes tattered and bloody. I see Nik and Rebekah in the distant. They run towards me.

"Artemis! What happened? Tell me what happened." Nik tells me worried.

"I can't remember." I tell him groggily. Nik anxiously examines me for any wounds.

"You've completely healed. There's not a scratch on you." He tells me.

"One of the perks of being a hybrid, remember?" I exclaim.

"No, not that fast." Nik tells me. Rebekah runs over to me wrapping her arm around me protectively.

"Leave her alone! It's the baby. The vampire blood-- Klaus' vampire blood-- in your system. It can heal any wound." Rebekah tells us. Nik looks at her with a weird expression. I feel like these people forgot I was an original.

"Your own child healed you." Rebekah tells me. I notice Nik smile at the thought as Rebekah turns to me.

"How did you escape? Outnumbered, unarmed? Those men were ripped to shreds!" Rebekah tells me.

"I think it was the wolf. I think it's trying to protect me." I tell her quietly.

"The witches were supposed to protect you! When I get my hands on Sophie Deveraux--" Nik starts angrily pointing at me.

"It wasn't Sophie--" Rebekah starts.

"--It was Agnes." I cut her off.

"Fine! Agnes, Sophie, it's all the same to me! I'll slaughter the lot of them!" Nik growls and I smile at his protectiveness. I sit down.

"Not if Elijah gets there first." Rebekah comments.

"Elijah? Did you find him?" Hayley asks randomly popping out of no where. I look at Nik with confusion. He shrugs.

"He's been in touch, and he has a plan. All he asks is that we take care of you two." She answers Hayley.

"Hey, so... can we go home now? I'd really like to sleep for a few days..." I ask standing up as Nik nods with a smile. I start to walk but my knees buckle as I stumble and start to fall. Nik catches me picking me up bridal style.

"Ooh, I've got you, love. I've got you." Nik whispers as I slowly fall asleep in his arms. I wake up to Nik shaking me lightly.

"What?" I ask and he shushes me.

"You know Cami well I have had her under my compulsion and she told me about nightmares and stuff and I was going to go help her with it but I don't want you to get mad if you found out from someone else." He tells me quickly and I smile.

"It is fine Nik I can tell you care for her." I tell him laying back down as he disappears. I fall asleep quickly seeing as I was really tired. The next day I wake to hear Nik, Rebekah, and Sophie talking downstairs. I walk into my closet changing into a pair of black leggings and a sweatshirt. I walk downstairs with a cup of coffee standing next to the table.

"You can't go out there now. I need to gather the witches' remains and consecrate them. If I don't get to them before sundown, we'll lose the link to their magic." Sophie argues with him and he becomes annoyed.

"Those witches tried to kill Artemis. I'd prefer for Marcel's informant not to find anything that would lead him back to us, her, or to you know that." Nik points to my stomach. I roll my eyes.

"You are all class." I say taking a sip of the coffee.

"Stay put. And save the rest of your story til' I return." He points to Sophie and leaves. Hayley walks in probably after hearing everything. I walk upstairs putting on a pair of sneakers and we meet up at the bottom of the steps. Sophie had already left and we wanted to go with her. We go to the mausoleum.

"Hey what the hell?" Sophie asks and after that I just zoned out. I play with a ball of fire in my hand. This Davina chick won't be able to know that I was doing magic seeing as I am an original. Sophie and Hayley stop talking an look at me.

"What?" I ask confused.

"You can't do magic here." Sophie tells me and I roll my eyes.

"I can do whatever I want. Elijah is talking to her she won't notice and I am an original she can't sense me doing magic." I tell her and she tries to walk to the entrance but I stand in front of her.

"Listen. The whole reason I came to this stupid town in the first place was to learn more about my family. Your sister's the one that told me Marcel ran the werewolves out of the Quarter into the Bayou. And last night, I'm pretty sure that some guardian-angel-wolf saved my life. So, I'm coming with you." I tell her after reading her mind about what was going on. Rebekah walks in rolling her eyes.
"Could you three be more idiotic?" She asks us. Hayley and Sophie both look at each other and sigh in frustration while I just roll my eyes sighing.

"Two can play the follow-game, you know! You heard Klaus, he and Marcel are headed right where you're going." Rebekah tells us.

"So distract them. Because unless you wanna lock a hormonal, pregnant werewolf in a tomb, I'm coming with you. And wouldn't Elijah be mad if he hears that the baby and I died of asphyxiation?" I ask with a smirk. Rebekah stares at me, clearly annoyed by my stubbornness. Sophie rolls her eyes and sighs again.

Sophie, Rebekah, Hayley, and I continue to walk around the woods of the Bayou to look for the dead witches.

"So, this Harvest thingy-- tell me more." Rebekah tells Sophie.

"Klaus said to wait." Sophie tells her slightly annoyed.

"Yes. He also said to stay out of the bayou and yet here we are, amongst the crawly, buzzy creatures." Rebekah smirks and I roll my eyes.

"We're here." Hayley tells us. We finally reach the place where the witches were killed. Their bodies are all bloodied and ripped apart, and a dismembered head lies near the bodies. Sophie, who looks sick, kneels down to dig around her bag for the ingredients she needs to consecrate her fellow witches.

"Whoa." I say seeing a huge paw-print in the mud. In a nearby tree, there are three bloody scratches in the bark.

"Is that a wolf track?" Sophie asks and I nod. I hear the sound of crunching footsteps nearby.

"Who's there? " Rebekah calls out. The person approaching us is a male vampire-- Marcel's informant, Tomas.

"What the hell? An Original? " he gets scared and immediately runs away leaving us in shock not ready for that.